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Re: [emacs-bidi] Display routines
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] Display routines |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Nov 2001 22:17:22 +0200 |
> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 19:33:23 +0200
> From: "Ehud Karni" <address@hidden>
>
> On Tue, 06 Nov 2001 18:54:18 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > (what is cp-1255 anyway?)
> >
> > It's identical to 8859-8, except that the codes in the range 128..159
> > have characters that are outside iso8859-8 set (a.k.a. MS extensions).
>
> In my hebeng.el package you can choose the Hebrew type used (UNIX/DOS).
cp-1255 is for Windows, not for DOS (as I'm sure Ehud knows).
> > As for the paragraph main direction, after lots of thinking, I
> > propose the following model:
> >
> > - If the user wants to force the paragraph to be of a certain
> > directionality, she should type the LRM or RLM code as the first
> > character of the paragraph.
> >
> > - Otherwise, Emacs will decide the paragraph direction by looking
> > at the first strong character: if it's R, the direction will be
> > RTL, otherwise it will be LTR.
>
> The 2nd option encloses the 1st since LRM and RLM are considered
> strong L / R characters.
Yes, from the UAX#9 point of view. From the user's point of view,
the first option requires an action on the part of the user, the
second one does not.
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Display routines, (continued)
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Display routines, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/06
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Display routines, Ehud Karni, 2001/11/06
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Display routines, Matan Ninio, 2001/11/06
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Display routines, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/07
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Display routines, Matan Ninio, 2001/11/07
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Display routines, Ehud Karni, 2001/11/07
- Re: [emacs-bidi] detecting the wrong order of characters, Alex Schroeder, 2001/11/07
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Display routines,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Display routines, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/07
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Display routines, Michael Welsh Duggan, 2001/11/06
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Display routines, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/06
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Display routines, Uwe Brauer, 2001/11/06
- [emacs-bidi] Re: bidi prototype in elisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/06
- [emacs-bidi] Re: bidi prototype in elisp, Alex Schroeder, 2001/11/06
- [emacs-bidi] Re: bidi prototype in elisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/06
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: bidi prototype in elisp, Ehud Karni, 2001/11/06
- Message not available
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: bidi prototype in elisp, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/06
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: bidi prototype in elisp, Ehud Karni, 2001/11/06